born 1947, Dr.phil., lives in Vienna and Berlin. He is a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor as well as a member of the teaching faculty for Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy of the ÖAGP. His work focuses on the history and theory of the clinical application of Gestalt theory, in particular the theoretical foundation of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy. He is the former president of the Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applica-tions (GTA), long-time editor of the journal Gestalt Theory and co-publisher of Phänomenal – Zeitschrift für Gestalttheoretische Psychotherapie (Journal for Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy). He is also the editor and co-author of the books Psychische Störungen im Ich-Welt-Verhältnis (Mental Disorders in the I-World Relationship; 2002), Giuseppe Galli: Der Mensch als Mit-Mensch (Man as fellow-human; 2017), Paul Tholey: Gestalttheorie von Sport, Klartraum und Bewusstsein (Gestalt theory of Sports, Lucid Dreaming and Conscious-ness; 2018). and (with Marianne Soff) Wolfgang Metzger, Schöpferische Freiheit - Gestaltheorie des Lebendigen (Creative Freedom - Gestalt Theory of the Living).
The Essentials of Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy offer for the first time in English an insight into the guiding ideas of this integrative psychotherapy method, which is consistently anchored in Gestalt psychology (and in this respect also differs substantially from most streams...
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